Dental floss.



No. 872,908. PATENTED DBO. 3, 1'907. J. D. CUTTER.

DENTAL FLOSS.

APPLICATION FILE!) APR.9.197.

W/TNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN D. CUTTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DENTAL FLOSS.

Specificatio of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

L Application filed April 9. 1907. Serial No. 367.242.

T 0 all whom it may conce7n:

Be it known that I, JOHN D. CUTTER, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident,

of the city of New York, borough ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York,'have invented a new and useful Improvement in DentalFloss, of which the fol-,

lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. v The invention relatesto the construction of dental floss, or a floss adapted"to be passedbetween the teeth for the purpose of cleaning them, and removing foreignsubstances.

The object of the invention is to construct the floss in the form of aribbon instead of giving it the acoustomed twisted shape, thus enablingthe improved floss to be more conveniently entered between the teeth,and to enter narrower crevices than twisted floss; and also in operationthe improved floss covers a greater amount of surface.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved floss wound upon a ocre,and Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of a piece of the said flossillustrating the manner in which it is constructed.

The improved floss A may be of any desired length, and is in the form ofa ribbon or tape, having opposing fiat sides.

The floss is 'usually cross-wound, as is shown at 11 in Fig. 1, on acore 12, and in the JOHN D. CUTTER.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, JOHN P. DAVIS.

,construction of the floss as shown in Fig. 2,

